On Monday 06 April 2020 21:36:47 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > Just don't use Seagate ST3000DM001 or ST2000DM001 3TB and 2TB drives. > "All dead, all dead, all the drives are dead." > Seagate is one brand, but I am not at all bashfull about downloading the drives firmware updating cd's, I have nipped several failures in the bud and went on to get many years of service out of them.
> 'Course any of those two models still operating are likely to stay > operating, maybe. Backblaze (a company that operates massive storage > farms) quickly retired all their ST3000DM001 drives from their > storinator pods when they began failing at a rate far higher than any > other drive they'd used. Peak failure was up to 42% vs the single > digits they commonly saw with other drives. They were the first 1TB > per platter hard drives when other 1TB+ drives were using 500GB per > platter. > > I dunno if the class action lawsuit has been resolved. I happen to > have a defekt one of those Seagates. Would be nice to be able to get a > free replacement, of a different model. > > On Monday, April 6, 2020, 6:53:22 PM MDT, Gene Heskett > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday 06 April 2020 16:32:04 N wrote: > > You most probably backup data, in Linux the "/home" folder including > > all subdirectories. Not sure if it is possible to save a list of > > installed packages in Linux. > > > > CD-ROM is cheapest if there is enough space, DVD is larger and > > magnetic tape provided you use modern tape drive is the largest. > > But that tape is a hugely fragile solution. Hard drives in the 2T > territory are 100's if not 1000sands to times more dependable. Using > virtual tapes on a big hard drive. > > They make 10000000 such drives annually, sealed against the > environment so its stands to reason that as backup storage, they are > many times as dependabe than tape. I switched amanda to big drives in > about 2003, and I've replaced that drive 4 times now, not because it > failed, but because I out grew it. Amanda has always been there when > I needed it. _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
